Medicine 2014 Applicants

£7 an hour at 17? Not gonna happen, unless you live in London. You *might* get one with £6-something an hour if you're lucky (at a supermarket for example), as most places pay the minimum under 18 wage of £3.68/hr. Surely any job is better than no job though, even if the pay isn't fantastic?

There are loads of jobs for over £7 an hour you just need to look in the right places such as large companies

Im kinda losing my cool here, I applied to the following universities for medicine and Manchester for Petroleum Engineering. I have received an offer of BCC for petroleum engineering. I applied on the 13th of Oct. I achieved 820 UKCAT score. BMAT isnt done yet :l

Chem (A) 287 Maths (A) 290 Biology (A) 300 Physics (B) 235 General Studies (A*) 500

. Cambridge
. Imperial
. Kings
. Queens

Should I be worried or have people not received offers yet from these unis. Im so scared if I dont get into these Unis Ive wasted my life :l

Im kinda losing my cool here, I applied to the following universities for medicine and Manchester for Petroleum Engineering. I have received an offer of BCC for petroleum engineering. I applied on the 13th of Oct. I achieved 820 UKCAT score. BMAT isnt done yet :l

Chem (A) 287 Maths (A) 290 Biology (A) 300 Physics (B) 235 General Studies (A*) 500

. Cambridge
. Imperial
. Kings
. Queens

Should I be worried or have people not received offers yet from these unis. Im so scared if I dont get into these Unis Ive wasted my life :l

No one will have received an offer yet... UKCAT scores aren't sent to unis for a few weeks yet and no one has even sat the BMAT, so how can they have given any out? There hasn't exactly been time to give out and hold interviews in the 2 days since the deadline either

It's only been 4 days! Don't worry about it, you haven't done the BMAT so you won't hear from Cambridge and imperial until after that and the other unis don't get your ukcat until November so they can't say anything either. As a reapplicant I can say that you have not wasted your life if you don't get into those unis, there's plenty of other fantastic universities and especially with medicine, most (if not all) are just as good as each other If it gives you piece of mind you can expect to hear from Cambridge about 1-2 days after BMAT results are published (which is about 2 weeks after you do it I think). Just relax now, all you can do is focus on school and prepare for interviews. Good luck


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Do any universities actually put a weighting on references? I have applied to Nottingham, St.George, Birmingham and Liverpool. I have not seen any of them really state that they use the reference in their decisions.

I do swimming teaching, so perhaps you could find a place that does a swimming teaching course and then look for work with a swimming teaching company? That's what I did and get £11/hour!

How long is a Swimming teaching course?

Do any universities actually put a weighting on references? I have applied to Nottingham, St.George, Birmingham and Liverpool. I have not seen any of them really state that they use the reference in their decisions.

[...] Should I be worried or have people not received interviews yet from these unis. Im so scared if I dont get into these Unis Ive wasted my life :l

does that mean the reference letters aren't very important then? My referee wasn't able to bring up medicine at all (she just brought up a list of stuff i did and what kind of person I was but didn't even use the word 'medicine' in it throughout the whole thing...) is that going to put me at a disadvantage?